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Ten years ago, I was flicking through an autobiography in a bookshop when I came across the words ‘if I could just have Mom back for five minutes…’ I immediately slammed the book shut. Those words hit a nerve – a nerve that had come to define my life. Hidden grief. Ever since my mum had passed away 14 years earlier, I had thought the same words over and over: ‘If I could just have Mum back for five minutes,…